“A team from our outfit went to inspect the toilet and realised it was on our mains so we sought the support of AMA and the police to destroy it,” the GWCL Chief Engineer for the Accra West Region, Mr Peter De-veer, told the Daily Graphic after the exercise.

Onlookers, including residents, hailed the GWCL for the action it took.

The residents had continously expressed fear the water they use could be contaminated by faecal matter from the illegal project and thus put their health in danger.

Mr De-veer said apart from the illegal siting of the toilet, the owner also illegally connected water from the GWCL pipes to overhead tanks at the project site.

The Daily Graphic of January 29, 2018, reported that the construction of the toilet in the area was causing apprehension amongst community members and in response Mr De-veer promised that the project would be demolished soon.

A concerned resident also petitioned the Member of Parliament (MP) for Okaikoi Central and Deputy Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Mr Patrick Yaw Boamah, seeking his intervention to stop the operation of the facility.

The petition described the project as “a health hazard and nuisance to the neighbourhood.”